Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error #246

dgokcin · 2022-09-07T15:05:43Z

🐞 Describe the bug

Hello when I am trying to use the action with a GitHub App, I am having this error. Any help is appreciated.

📚 To reproduce

💡 Expected behavior

A PR against the specified branch to be created.

🖼️ Screenshots

⚙️ Environment

@v1

📋 Additional context

No response

sammcj · 2022-10-02T22:30:18Z

I'm getting this as well @BetaHuhn on the latest version of this Action.

Example repo (you can probably fork and try syncing to your fork) - https://github.com/sammcj/github-app-installation-token/

This repo is a Github Action/App so it contains a node_modules folder as is required by Github.

Debug logs:

##[debug]Creating missing blobs on GitHub
##[debug]EXEC: "git ls-tree -r --full-tree b4ef3810621aa63ec702455a5ca7a85ae0c0d61d~1" IN tmp-1664748747018/github.com/sammcj/github-app-installation-token@main
##[debug]EXEC: "git ls-tree -r --full-tree b4ef3810621aa63ec702455a5ca7a85ae0c0d61d" IN tmp-1664748747018/github.com/sammcj/github-app-installation-token@main
##[debug]Creating a GitHub tree
Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error
##[debug]{"name":"HttpError","status":502,"response":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sammcj/github-app-installation-token/git/trees","status":502,"headers":{"connection":"close","content-length":"32","content-type":"application/json","date":"Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:13:25 GMT","etag":"\"6339ff8e-20\"","server":"GitHub.com","vary":"Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With","x-github-request-id":"0402:35D2:35F8CBB:6F07944:633A0CF8"},"data":{"message":"Server Error"}},"request":{"method":"POST","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sammcj/github-app-installation-token/git/trees","headers":{"accept":"application/vnd.github.v3+json","user-agent":"octokit-core.js/3.6.0 Node.js/12.22.7 (linux; x64)","authorization":"token [REDACTED]","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8"},"body":"{\"tree\":[{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"92322b87f8390109c339c6caf1be64216e402a69\",\"path\":\".devcontainer/devcontainer.json\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"10d776365b3a8859c1f9af6a5ca8061fb85679b7\",\"path\":\".editorconfig\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"7c7e89bf7350249a807e92be77b43b5da4f63c2a\",\"path\":\".eslintrc.cjs\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"f40d39cf5f5a830bbaddfa538a2d4bfbda311a59\",\"path\":\".github/config/labeller.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"be56be9f0ad9508377e172b83015c6a54121803f\",\"path\":\".github/config/labels.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"5dfd89193270342d48898ca73936b2fa1c6157be\",\"path\":\".github/pull_request_template.md\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"7505f9e98779ba82be477d5dd7b6abf540b99954\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/bump-version.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"9c18839f108943554e1f8a51aa9bbc5f162cb416\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/codeball.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"9e99baca685ba42523c4572514dfdfe95b322e8f\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"0b9777f944266975da74b2f0d788880ec34f0a68\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/detect-secrets.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"1a8a765ddcb275495254fdf9d9b7628718f48d40\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/label-sync.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"172dd0b9e52ac1490a06eacd628afac0d53582c3\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-codeowners.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"f18d105e7528f3b3dd953d421c0a9e2fc04cef21\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-docker.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"dd9a01abc4b1be1cef31c3835ba92fcdaac7fb32\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-pr-actions-skip.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"72bf9a02d2c43240d594b259ebbe170f82929c55\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-pr-actions.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"1573c3ac80cdd0bd97577b429f29b0e6caddff9e\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-pr-markdown.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"58c9312d24db5eda4f05a91547e5c7f4f4107f55\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-shell.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"94e2c9890c49ba6bf4aae111f9651c47639cbdcb\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/lint-tf.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"54071c3e93b3ce19be8d550f6a4302420e50f02b\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/pr-labeller.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"e31f14cddcd183ba0e23604ed91daa5435d66193\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/pre-commit-update.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"8422beb9c6075cc6b8ae148ec636b4338ff2ad55\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/pre-commit.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"106b98578a1283ca68978b7e57b1c69823c38a25\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/release-only.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"dcc98dc47e68f710bd3c83ec4b5f38eb1004d15a\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/test_failure_organisation_not_installed.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"f84970b8f21b8d026cbcca7c314123fa65686566\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/test_failure_repository_not_installed.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"03434179ab15596734ed7904b7d89a83870e36a2\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/test_organisation_installed.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"d631cd3e61140665a914eb3af67791fe75baf12c\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/test_repository_installed.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"587c112c1db6d62a3b1101fd70cf99b453dfcf08\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/test_repository_installed_limited.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"32f9e2e06e23169cb23359dab54f9eeb533e8548\",\"path\":\".github/workflows/todo.yml\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"4cce5d3fc8e468fee466d0e21996e99bedf29842\",\"path\":\".github_application\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"25e959123d2e11b325836de94e755e9a08f68dec\",\"path\":\".gitignore\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"6f7f377bf5148f8b722619c65f29de2c2d204bee\",\"path\":\".nvmrc\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"698f7e90d0f52460bb0f592e1608d0ef486f428b\",\"path\":\".prettierrc.cjs\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"2bfef5b0f511aa1d6d4f21ae6ac2e01b06f9ce4e\",\"path\":\".whitesource\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"773f486871e48e8eeb3dc26cb837da0550ea36cc\",\"path\":\"CONTRIBUTING.md\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"02c729d03ad07cc69bffb4c38e16514fec1e9871\",\"path\":\"LICENSE\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type\":\"blob\",\"sha\":\"681b0c2d272ed5fdd386cb4ac986d29ed94417e2\",\"path\":\"README.md\"},{\"mode\":\"100644\",\"type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RichardTMiles · 2022-10-25T22:41:09Z

It currently seems that my team is facing this too. I could get it working in a reasonably new repo, but our well-established failed. Note the name .co vs .com

RichardTMiles · 2022-10-25T22:43:19Z

The app is added for the entire account, and the repo does not contain a node_modules (though it may in history)

BetaHuhn#246

RichardTMiles · 2022-10-26T00:17:47Z

Using BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action@master vs BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action@v1 or BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action@latest worked for me

RichardTMiles · 2022-10-29T16:24:16Z

Seem's like this still occurs in a very spastic way. Re-running the workflow has solved the issue before.

sammcj · 2022-11-09T22:43:38Z

Similar for me too -

DocMarten · 2023-04-19T10:19:05Z

I'm running into the same problem.
I think this is related to the size of the repository. For the most repositories it runs without problems and only for repositories with a lot of files the error occurs.

The github API return a 502 error for the createTree request.

try {
	const request = await this.github.git.createTree({
		owner: this.repo.user,
		repo: this.repo.name,
		tree
	})
	treeSha = request.data.sha
} catch (error) {
	error.message = `Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: ${ error.message }`
	throw error
}

Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error
##[debug]{"name":"HttpError","status":502,"response":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/.../git/trees","status":502,"headers":{"connection":"close","content-length":"32","content-type":"application/json","date":"Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:23:08 GMT","etag":""643e7ad2-20"","server":"GitHub.com","vary":"Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With","x-github-request-id":"xxx"},"data":{"message":"Server Error"}},"request":{"method":"POST","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/.../git/trees","headers":{"accept":"application/vnd.github.v3+json","user-agent":"octokit-core.js/3.6.0 Node.js/16.16.0 (linux; x64)","authorization":"token [REDACTED]","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8"},"body":"{"tree":[{"mode":"100644","type":"blob","sha":"de7b5be2afe111d4fc8325674edc1870e0e6bbef","path":".eslintrc.json"},{"mode":"100644","type":"blob","sha":"5af36ee5af3961f8c6abb758d0155a764c3cc7b4","path":".github/workflows/pr_lint.yaml"},......

Maybe there is another way to determine the tree hash?
@BetaHuhn doesn't previousTree already contain the required sha?

asafhm · 2023-06-11T19:51:29Z

@DocMarten Mine was the same case, and this workaround did the trick for me:

Increase the http.postBuffer default limit (added as a step between the checkout step and the action step):

- run: git config --global http.postBuffer 157286400

(Here I used an arbitrary value of 150MB for example)

alvarezfr · 2023-09-04T15:08:00Z

Hi, I have just created the PR #321 with a fix for this.

I have done multiple tests and all of them works just fine but if any of you still have this kind of problem you can test it before it is merged. I'm sure that any additional feedback about the fix is welcome, you can test it temporally calling the action from my source branch of the PR: alvarezfr/repo-file-sync-action@fix/github-app-auth-tree.

I'm running into the same problem. I think this is related to the size of the repository. For the most repositories it runs without problems and only for repositories with a lot of files the error occurs.

The github API return a 502 error for the createTree request.
try {
	const request = await this.github.git.createTree({
		owner: this.repo.user,
		repo: this.repo.name,
		tree
	})
	treeSha = request.data.sha
} catch (error) {
	error.message = `Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: ${ error.message }`
	throw error
}
Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error
##[debug]{"name":"HttpError","status":502,"response":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/.../git/trees","status":502,"headers":{"connection":"close","content-length":"32","content-type":"application/json","date":"Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:23:08 GMT","etag":""643e7ad2-20"","server":"GitHub.com","vary":"Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With","x-github-request-id":"xxx"},"data":{"message":"Server Error"}},"request":{"method":"POST","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/.../git/trees","headers":{"accept":"application/vnd.github.v3+json","user-agent":"octokit-core.js/3.6.0 Node.js/16.16.0 (linux; x64)","authorization":"token [REDACTED]","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8"},"body":"{"tree":[{"mode":"100644","type":"blob","sha":"de7b5be2afe111d4fc8325674edc1870e0e6bbef","path":".eslintrc.json"},{"mode":"100644","type":"blob","sha":"5af36ee5af3961f8c6abb758d0155a764c3cc7b4","path":".github/workflows/pr_lint.yaml"},......

Maybe there is another way to determine the tree hash? @BetaHuhn doesn't previousTree already contain the required sha?

I have been able to reproduce the problem with a big size repository and a small one, I was revisiting the API documentation and the error and even searching for the problem but I was not able to find any limit or reason why this was failing, but I suspect that this way of doing the tree was hitting a hidden limit in these cases. The PR changes the way the tree is constructed, previously it created a tree with any single file in the commit, but now creates the tree only with the changes and sets the parent commit tree as base_tree in the API.

This produces a smaller request in almost all cases.

kkantonop · 2024-03-19T11:17:41Z

@alvarezfr thanks a lot for this! it worked for me!

it would be good to have this merged as we would like to avoid using a custom branch

BetaHuhnBot · 2024-05-05T12:03:40Z

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Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error #246

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dgokcin commented Sep 7, 2022

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Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error #246

Error: Cannot create a new GitHub Tree: Server Error #246

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dgokcin commented Sep 7, 2022

🐞 Describe the bug

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sammcj commented Oct 2, 2022 • edited

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RichardTMiles commented Oct 26, 2022

RichardTMiles commented Oct 29, 2022

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